Kimmel jokes U.S. 'going to war with Canada' over Bills

Television host Jimmy Kimmel arrives for the Time 100 gala celebrating the magazine's naming of the 100 most influential people in the world for the past year, in New York, April 23, 2013. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)

British actor Daniel Radcliffe appeared on Kimmel's late-night talk show on Tuesday. After explaining how he overcame a visa issue while in Toronto, the Harry Potter star said he crossed into the U.S. via Buffalo.

"All I know about Buffalo is the Bills are there," Radcliffe told Kimmel. "The only conversation I could come up with in Buffalo to this lovely woman who was helping us, was, 'So, the Bills might be going to Toronto, I hear.'

"And she just gave this incredibly serious, sad reaction, (saying), 'I don't know what this town will do if they ever leave.'"

At which point Kimmel interjected: "If the Bills go to Toronto, we're going to war with Canada. We are."

The NFL team is up for sale, and the Toronto group led by rocker Jon Bon Jovi placed a bid on Tuesday. Only in recent weeks has the group disavowed its original intention to relocate the franchise to Toronto.

For the past year or so, Kimmel has serially lampooned Canada's largest city and its embarrassing mayor, Rob Ford.

There might be cross-over subject matter for Kimmel. Ford loves football and coached a prominent Toronto high school until last year.